RESUME

The art of writing

• Keep resume simple and boring
• One page resume
• No jpg format
• No funky graphics
• No funky fonts
• No creative formatting
• No pictures

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Palo Alto, CA

Do not provide full address

Students:

Please use your university email address�

Professionals:

Short email address

Gmail address (avoid other)

Preferred last name or first name only

Jen.Marten@gmail.com

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777-777-7777

Shorter your URL

Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage.

Click View Profile.

On your profile page, click the Edit icon next to Public profile & URL on the right pane.

Under Edit your custom URL on the right pane, click the Edit icon next to your public profile URL.

Type or edit the last part of your new custom public profile URL in the text box.

Click Save.

URL to GitHub/other

Please make sure people can see your github link

github.com/Gates

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• Professional Headshot and LinkedIn Banner.
• Informative work experience section
• Meaningful connections
• Recommendations
• Education

Work Experience

Company - If it's a startup or not so well-known company, briefly describe what it does in one sentence.

Position Title – try to translate to correct US title

Bullet Points:

• Make sure each bullet point is no longer than 3 sentences.
• Make sure that you tailor each resume and to the job description and industry.
• Start with verb in past tense, accomplishment, and impact in % or magnitude (double, half, etc.)
• use X-Y-Z formula:"Accomplished (X) as measured by (Y), by doing (Z)“

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Tailoring Resume

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www.freewordcloudgenerator.com

Hi (name), hope you're well! saw you're on the hiring team for (company), specially for (role). I have experiences/ skills in (xyz) that would make me a great candidate.

Would love to connect and chat!

X-Y-Z �formula

X-Y-Z formula: "Accomplished (X) as measured by (Y), by doing (Z)“ examples:

• Won first place out of 100 teams in a hackathon at [school] by working with two classmates to develop an app that [describe what the app does).
• Increased revenue for 5 local startups by 15% over the last year by developing a new application that enables them to increase their sales funnel.
• Developed a new customized login tool that reduced customer signup time by 30% and doubled the number of customers who signed up in 6 months.
• Drove a 15% increase in webpage view by helping launch new webpage to increase brand awareness by implementing escalation process for the project progression

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Metrics should be RELEVANT and answer one these questions:

• How many?
• How often?
• How long?

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ChatGPT

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Education

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• Education section goes above Work Experience section only if you are student.

Additional Information section

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Thank You!

Don’t be shy! Let them know how great you are. This is your resume, so it’s one of the first things recruiter sees.

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It’s a great place for your ‘resume pitch.’ If you only had a few seconds to pitch yourself, what would you say?